From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 18:03:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17017 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16954 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:02:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28034; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: chad@dcfinc.com cc: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty erase ^H ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:51:21 MST." <199803170151.SAA20668@freebie.dcfinc.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:01:34 -0800 Message-ID: <28031.890100094@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk This whole discussion is rather pointless in any case. No changes to the current keymap behavior are planned or will be made. Jordan > > So to summarize, setting the <-- key to produce a delete character > > will make many people happy and will not inconvenience others. > > Except me, who leaves the STTY settings the way they have been since I > started UNIX hacking in about '83. > > Which is, DEL (0xff) is the interrupt character, and BS (0x08) > backspaces. You'd leave me with two ways to backspace, but I'd have to > pick some other MS-DOS abomination like CNTL-C (0x03) to be able to > interrupt running jobs. > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? > 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message